Hi,
I tested Murena Maps to go to my holiday destination and to come back. I used it because it was the only one proposing the road I wanted to take for the trip. It was a 10-hour trip covering 800 km, and here is my feedback:
The trip to the holiday destination was done with Murena Maps beta 5:
Tunnels are not handled correctly. GPS is lost, and on the map our position does not move automatically at the latest known speed.
Once, when exiting a tunnel on the motorway, Murena Maps put my position on the opposite way. Despite it being a one-way road and me going in the opposite direction, it locked me onto the incorrect way, which ended up in incorrect directions. I had to restart the application to fix it.
If you start navigation and donāt quit it properly (meaning you donāt press the back button several times to exit the application), you still get the navigation directions from the former navigation. So in my case, I killed the app because of the wrong-way problem, relaunched a navigation, and I ended up with directions told twice each time. I even had them told three times, since I killed it another time because of a GPS issue.
Sometimes the position stops being updated for an unknown reason, and you have to restart the app. It happened to me twice.
During the first day of my holidays, I used it, but I encountered the incorrect-way-detected issue several times. It was not a motorway, but a regular road with a separation in the middle. Navigation is OK at first, but when stopped at a red light or in a traffic jam, the GPS position changes slightly and sometimes ends up detecting me on the opposite way, never going back to the correct one.
Because of this, I stopped using it during the holidays and used CoMaps without any issues. Then, just before coming back home, beta 6 was released. I updated it and did the trip back with it. I shouldnāt have, since it was way worse than beta 5 for me:
There were a lot of traffic jams, and the application wanted me to take small roads. I preferred continuing on the standard road. Almost every time, it never computed a new route based on my new position. I even sometimes saw my GPS position jumping between my actual position and the position where I had left the navigation. I had to quit and restart the application several times.
Navigation quit several times during the trip. The position stays stuck, the speed is OK, but the navigation panels are gone. I think itās the same issue as the stuck GPS position I had on beta 5, except it happened a lot more (I stopped counting at 10).
I also had the issue of the incorrect way being detected on the motorway after a tunnel.
Sometimes the position on the map lags 2 seconds behind. I also had to restart the application to fix it.
I also had the issue of navigation directions being told several times when not exiting the app properly.